The Reading Comprehension of Recount Text of the Eighth Grade Students of SMP N 1 Kalinyamatan Jepara in Academic Year 2011/2012 Taught by Using Team Teaching Strategy

Reading is kind of activity to comprehend the writer’s ideas or the way writer communicates with the reader by way of the written or printed words. However, the fact shows students have difficulties to comprehend the content of the texts. Team teaching strategy is one of strategy with two teachers delivering instruction and increasing the instructional options for the students, all students have more opportunities to participate actively in their learning. The objective of this research is to find out whether there is a significant difference of the reading comprehension of recount text of the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Kalinyamatan Jepara in academic year 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using the team teaching strategy. The subjects of the research were the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Kalinyamatan Jepara in academic year 2011/2012 with the number of students 37 from the population students 218. In choosing the sample of the research, the writer used cluster random sampling. The design of this research was experimental research because it is to find out whether there is effect relation to the variable or not. There was one experimental group. The result showed that the reading comprehension of recount text of the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Kalinyamatan Jepara in academic year 2011/2012 before being taught by using the team teaching strategy was categorized sufficient. The score of mean and deviation standard are 59.92 and10.6. Meanwhile, the reading comprehension of recount text of the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Kalinyamatan Jepara in academic year 2011/2012 after being taught by using the team teaching strategy was categorized good. The score of mean and deviation standard are 75.02 and 11.6. The calculation of t-test gets result 8.4 and in the level of significant 0.05 and the degree of freedom (df) 35 which is gained N1-1 t-table is 2.04. It is concluded that there is any significant differences of the reading comprehension of recount text of the eighth grade students of SMP N 1 Kalinyamatan Jepara in academic year 2011/2012 before and after being taught by using the team teaching strategy. Considering the process and the results of this research, I suggests that the English teacher can apply team teaching strategy in teaching reading into heterogeneous class with different ability so that they have same enhance to be success, the teacher should have a good understanding of the skills that students need in reading, the students should be more active because they are center of learning and the teacher is as the motivator and facilitator. And I hope this study can be used by the teacher in teaching to improving the students’ reading skill